Disinfecting and hair-drying apparatus.



No. 686,994. Patented Nov. I9, I90]. H. SO'NNEN. DISINFEBTING AND HAIR DRYING APPARATUS.

(Application filed Apr. 22, 1901.)

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HEINRICH SONNEN, OF RECKLINGHAUSEN, GERMANY.

DISINFECTING AND HAIR-DRYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,994, dated November 19, 1901.

Application filed April 22, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HEINRICH SONNEN, merchant, a subject of the King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany,residing at Ki rchplatz 2, Recklinghausen, in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Disinfecting and Hair-Drying Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In connection with the disinfecting apparatus which forms the object of this invention and can be employed also as a hot-air hair-drying apparatus, an air-pump, handbellows, or the like is used for the purpose of producing a current of air.

A special advantage of this disinfecting apparatus is that it can be also used as a hairdrying apparatus.

The apparatus may be arrangedin a simple manner on a hair-dressing chair, so that no special frame is required for setting it up.

The apparatus can be employed not only for disinfecting, but for drying the hair and the like.

A hot-air disinfecting and hair-drying apparatus of this kind is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a front view of the apparatus as arranged on. a hair-dressing chair. Fig. 2 shows the apparatus in side view and in section along the line A A through the hairdressing chair as in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents the hair-drying and disinfecting apparatus in section on an enlarged scale. Fig. etillustrates an arrangement in which the air is driven direct from the pump into the ball instead of through a tube from below.

The apparatus consists of an air-pump a, arranged on one of the legs of the hair-dressing chair b and actuated by means of the pedal 0. If the pedal 0 be brought into the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1 by being simply pressed down with the foot, the compressed air produced in the air-pump passes through a tube m into an indiarubber ball d, placed in a cylinder n above the airpump. In the india-rubber ball a mouthpiece furnished with an air-outlet opening is arranged, out of which the air passes into a chamber g, that is heated by a gas or other flame. The compressed air in the chamber 9 Serial No. 56,894. (No model.)

is there heated by the gas-flame e, ascends through the tube It into the receptacle for the disinfecting medium '5, where the heated air absorbs or, in other words, mixes with the disinfecting medium, and is conveyed to the place where it is to be used through a tube Z, arranged above the chamber.

The action of the apparatus is as follows: The air-pump a is actuated by simply pressing down the pedal 0 and the compressed air is forced through the pipe m into an indiarubber ball (1. The latter is suitably placed in a cylinder n, arranged above the pump in order to prevent any damage to or bursting of the ball d. The mouthpiece f of the indiarubber ball projects into a chamber 9, arranged above the cylinder n and heated by the flame e. The air is conveyed into the chamber g,there heated,then ascends through the pipe h, and thus reaches the receptacle 70 for the disinfecting medium, where it dissolves in other words, mixes with the latter, and then ascends through the tube 1 and reaches the spot where it is to be employed.

Instead of being operated by a pedal the pump may be worked by hand. The pump likewise may be replaced by a hand-bellows or the like. Again, any kind of lamp may be used for heating the chamber g. If the apparatus is employed only as a hair-drying apparatus, the disinfecting medium maybe suitably dispensed with, so that only the heated air needs to be brought into use. The disinfectin g medium can be easily introduced into the receptacle 70 through a valve 0. A door 19 is also provided in the air-heating chamber, so that the heating-flame maybe easilyignited or extinguished. The pedal 0 (or the piston of the pump a) is returned to the startingpoint in a simple manner by means of a spring q., Further, a pump may be employed in which the air to be supplied is not conducted from below through a tube, but conveyed direct from the pump into the india rubber ball.

What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The portable disinfecting and hair-drying apparatus comprising an air-pump a having means for clamping it to a chair-leg; an elastic reservoir 01, a heating-chamberg; conducting-pipe h and flexible dischargepipe Z, substantially as shown herein and described.

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2. The combination of the air-pump a; elasing medium 1' and flexible discharge-pipe Z, tic reservoir d; cylinder n, inclosing said elassubstantially as and for the purposes set forth. 1o

tic reservoir; heating-chamber g; conducting- In witness whereof I subscribe my signature pipe h; valve 0 and flexible discharge-pipe Z, in presence of two witnesses. 5 substantially as and for the purposes set forth. HEINRICH SONNEN.

3. The combination of the air-pump a; elas- Vitnesses: tic reservoir d; heating-chamber g; conduct- PETER LIEBER,

in g-pipe h; disinfecting-chamber7c; disinfect- WM. EssENWEIN. 

